Elio de Angelis

Elio de Angelis

Nation:	Italy
Automobile / Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1979 Argentina Grand Prix
Last start:	1986 Monaco Grand Prix
Constructors
1979  Shadow  1980–1985  Lotus  1986  Brabham
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup third ( 1984 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 108 2 3 -
World Cup points :	122
Podiums :	9
Leadership laps :	27 over 143 km

Elio de Angelis (born March 26, 1958 in Rome , † May 15, 1986 in Marseille ) was an Italian racing driver . In Formula 1 he started for Shadow , Lotus and Brabham . De Angelis contested a total of 108 races between 1979 and 1986 and won two Grand Prix.

Career

Karting

De Angelis began karting at the age of 14, and in 1975 he finished second at the Kart World Championship behind Belgian François Goldstein . In 1976 he won the European Kart Championship .

Entry into the monoposto area (1977–1978)

In 1977, at the age of 19, de Angelis entered the Italian Formula 3 championship with a Chevron Toyota . He won his third race and was champion at the end of the season. He also denied three races of the Formula 2 European Championship for the Scuderia Everest by Giancarlo Minardi . In 1978 he started the Formula 2 European Championship at Scuderia Everest, but got out after the sixth race due to the technical inferiority of his team. He returned to Formula 3, where he won the prestigious Formula 3 race in Monaco.

formula 1

Shadow (1979)

After he had already contested test drives for the Formula 1 team Shadow in September 1978 , de Angelis got a contract with Shadow for the 1979 season . This course was financed by his father, which initially earned him the reputation of a paydriver . His only result in the points was fourth place in the last race of the season, the Grand Prix of the USA East in Watkins Glen .

Lotus (1980–1985)

Elio de Angelis 1985 in the Lotus 97T at the Nürburgring

Thanks to his good performance with the losing car in the 1979 season, Colin Chapman offered him a contract with Team Lotus for the 1980 season . The best result in his first season at Lotus was second place in the Brazilian Grand Prix . He finished the world championship in seventh place with 13 points. In 1981 de Angelis finished eighth in the drivers' championship with 14 points. In 1982 he won his first Grand Prix in Austria with a lead of 0.05 seconds over Keke Rosberg . With 23 points he was ninth in the world championship.

In the following 1983 season , the Lotus had too many defects, so with a fifth place in the Italian Grand Prix it only scored two world championship points. In 1984 de Angelis was third in the world championship with 34 points. Although he didn't win, it was the best Formula 1 season of his career. In 1985 , de Angelis won his second and final race, the San Marino Grand Prix . With 33 points, he was fifth in the world championship.

Brabham (1986)

1986 de Angelis got a contract from Bernie Ecclestone at Brabham . The very low profile Brabham BT55 turned out to be a problematic car. The Monaco Grand Prix was de Angelis' last Formula 1 race.

Deadly accident

Elio de Angelis had an accident on May 15, 1986 during test drives for the Brabham team in Le Castellet . The cause of the accident is suspected to be a break in the rear wing at a speed of around 300 km / h in the S-curve “La Verrière”. However, there was never any official confirmation of the cause. After several rollovers and contact with the guardrail , the car stayed upside down. When Alan Jones stopped at the scene of the accident, the car was already on fire. The poorly equipped marshals were unable to put out the fire quickly. It took several minutes before the car could be turned around and the fire engines arrived at the scene of the accident. De Angelis should not have been seriously injured, only a broken collarbone was found. Since no rescue helicopter was available on the route during the test drives , it took a long time before de Angelis was admitted to the hospital. He died there of suffocation.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

Grand Prix victories

1982 Austrian Grand Prix ( Spielberg )

1985 San Marino Grand Prix ( Imola )

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1979
	7th	12	DNF	7th	DNF	DNF	DNQ	16	12	11	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	4th
1980
	DNF	2	DNF	DNF	10 *	9 *	DNF	DNF	16 *	6th	DNF	4th	10	4th
1981
	DNF	4th	6th		5	DNF	5	6th	DSQ	7th	7th	5	4th	6th	DNF
1982
	8th	DNF	5		4th	5	DNF	4th	DNF	4th	DNF	DNF	1	6th	DNF	DNF
1983
	DSQ	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	9	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	5	DNF	DNF
1984
	3	7th	5	3 *	5	5	4th	2	3	4th	DNF	DNF	4th	DNF	DNF	5
1985
	3	4th	1	3	5	5	5	NC	DNF	5	5	6th	DNF	5	DNF	DSQ
1986
	8th	DNF	DNF	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Elio de Angelis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ autodrom 13, by Axel Moreno, p. 14 ( ISBN 3-87396-413-9 )
2. ↑ GRAND PRIX by Ulrich Schwab, p. 129 ( ISBN 3-87943-881-1 )
3. ↑ Elio de Angelis - The last gentleman of the F1. Motorsport-Magazin.com, January 1, 2005, accessed September 17, 2013 .